The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries physicists treated the magnetic side as a quiet background player. New ...

Polarized light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for peering inside matter, yet the way it twists, scatters ...

Atomic defects in nanodiamonds enable both precise heating of lysosomes inside macrophages and nanoscale temperature ...

Most free satellite finder apps come packed with features designed to simplify dish alignment. You’ll typically find: ...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an optical sensing technique that measures blood volume changes and underpins devices ranging ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...

A collaborative team has developed a new way to create magnetic optical materials, one that removes a long-standing design ...

Pigeons may sense Earth’s magnetic field using their inner ear, sending signals to brain areas that help with navigation and ...

A new study reveals how trillionth-of-a-second light pulses strongly deflect magnetization by exploiting orbital-spin ...